Pence to attend LVMH nixes Ramsey gets event hosted $14.5B deal five-year, by backers for purchase $105M pact of QAnon of Tiffany from Rams B1 SECOND FRONT B4 BUSINESS C1 SPORTS THURSDAY Antelope September 10, 2020 20 pages, 4 sections 105th year, No. 163 $1.00 More Antelope Valley People Read the Valley Press Than Any Other Newspaper Established 1915. © 2020 AVPress Inc. All rights reserved. County: No Halloween? Not so fast! City offers charging price cuts By JULIE DRAKE Valley Press Staff Writer LANCASTER — It will cost electric ve- hicle owners less money to charge their ve- hicle’s batteries at charging stations owned by the City. There are a number of level two electric vehicle charging stations installed through- out the City. The city conducted an anal- ysis with other cities to compare charging rates for fast chargers and traditional char- gers. The city has six charging stations each PHOTO COURTESY OF DEPUTY RONALD SNEED, PALMDALE SHERIFF’S STATION at Antelope Valley Hospital and the Sgt. Palmdale Sheriff’s Station deputies pose with costumed trick-or- events are prohibited this year under guidance issued Tuesday, and Steve Owen Memorial Park and Ride, and treaters at the third annual Trunk or Treat & Car Show in 2018. Such revised Wednesday, by the County Department of Public Health. recently completed an upgrade at the Mu- seum of Art and History. In some instances, Lancaster charged Department of Public Health revises guidance on traditional activities double the rate that other cities charge at their electric vehicle charging stations. By JULIE DRAKE ment from the Department of event held at Stephen Sorensen during a pandemic.” “We would like to rectify that,” Chenin Valley Press Staff Writer Public Health initially banned Park in Lake Los Angeles, where Door-to-door trick or treating Dow, assistant to the city manager, said is not recommended because it PALMDALE — The Los door-to-door trick or treating be- children go car to car to collect during Tuesday’s City Council meeting. can be very difficult to main- Angeles County Department cause it can be difficult to main- treats. The goal is to make sure Lancaster re- tain proper social distancing on of Public Health on Wednesday tain proper social distancing on “Our guidelines have been covers its costs to provide the service but porches and at front doors. said traditional Halloween ac- porches and at front doors, es- slightly revised,” Public Health also bring the rates in line with other cites Ferrer cautioned that there is and make it more affordable for people to tivities such as trick or treating pecially in neighborhoods that Director Barbara Ferrer said no guarantee that when a child adopt electric vehicles. and trunk or treat events are are popular with trick or treat- Wednesday. visits a house that the person The new rate will maintain the $1 per now not recommended instead ers, the Department of Public “Trick-or-treating, we’re who opens the door is wearing a session access fee and lower the energy rate of the outright ban issued a day Health said in a statement. highly recommending that it not face covering. to $0.26 per kilowatt hour, down from the prior. The ban included trunk or happen,’’ Ferrer said. “We don’t A Tuesday afternoon state- treat events, such as the annual think it’s an appropriate activity See TRUNK, A4 See CITY, A4 Flag flies again at medical Virus tests after holiday facility in Quartz Hill weekend are By JULIE DRAKE several months this year, in- Force veteran Tony Atallah, cluding Memorial Day and his wife and their sons Na- Valley Press Staff Writer encouraged the Fourth of July. Many of thaniel and Dylan; Army vet- QUARTZ HILL — A US flag is back on the flagpole in the clinic’s longtime patients eran Eric Albert, Joe Walker front of the First Valley Medi- asked why there was no flag Middle School STEALTH cal Group clinic. on the pole. Academy teacher Matt An- The clinic, previously “People get used to seeing derson, whose father was an known as Quartz Hill Walk-in the flag there,” Manager Isa- Air Force veteran; and Ander- By JENNIFER A. GARCIA Medical Group, has been at bel Andrade said. “It’s tradi- son’s wife Elizabeth, whose fa- Valley Press Editor tion. We just wanted to have it ther was a Navy veteran. the corner of 50th Street West Labor Day was Monday for the holiday.” “It was just very humbling and Avenue L-8 for about 25 and for many, that meant trips The clinic got permission that other military people years. to the beach and for some, it to order a new one, measuring would jump right in and help Having a flag on the flag- meant attending gatherings. 15 feet by 25 feet. pole outside the clinic was a to raise our flag, and to know Because of the possibility of A group of community tradition started by the late all the people that came to transmitting COVID-19 to Dr. John R. Blodgett Jr., the members, including a repre- help have a tie into the West- others, Los Angeles County sentative from each branch of side (Union School District) clinic’s former owner who PHOTO COURTESY OF ELIZABETH ANDERSON Public Health Director Bar- died in 2008. The previous the military, Air Force, Army, family, as well as military fami- Matt Anderson (from left) Eric Albert, Tony Atallah and Natha- bara Ferrer is encouraging flag was taken down because Navy and Marines, raised the ly,” Matt Anderson said. nial Atallah raise a US flag Saturday morning at the First Valley those who engaged in activ- it was worn. flag Saturday morning. Medical Group office on the corner of 50th Street West and ities outside their home to get The pole was flag-less for The group included Air [email protected] Avenue L-8. tested. “If you were in an area that was super crowded and people weren’t wearing a face Sheriff’s captain says driving covering and you weren’t wearing a face covering, get tested,” she advised Wednes- too fast still a problem in AV day during her regular brief- ing. By JENNIFER A. GARCIA as a chronic traffic problem. The res- She also encouraged peo- Valley Press Editor idents here are mainly part of a com- ple in the following situations muting society, which means they PALMDALE — Some drivers to get tested: likely are driving to Los Angeles to in the Antelope Valley need to slow • Those around people work and back, he said. There were down and obey traffic laws — that who were feeling sick. 80,000 commuters on the freeway was the message Capt. Ron Shaffer • Those around someone per day, pre-COVID-19 and once had for those tuning in to his Coffee who tested positive, even if they get off the freeway, they tend they never felt sick. with a Captain event Wednesday FACEBOOK SCREENSHOT to continue traveling at high speeds “Testing sites are open and morning on Facebook. Det. Quiroz (left), Capt. Ron Shaffer, Sgt. Anderson and Deputy Nolan talked through towns in the Antelope Valley. appointments are available,” about traffic safety and the issues plaguing the Antelope Valley during the The Antelope Valley continues to Coffee with the Captain event Wednesday morning on Facebook. grapple with what Shaffer referred to See SPEED, A4 See INCUBATION, A5 TODAY’S OUTLOOK A special good morning to Valley Press subscriber JULIO PEREZ of Palmdale Sunny. Highs INSIDE TODAY HOROSCOPES D3 PUBLIC NOTICES D1 in mid-80s BUSINESS B4 VERN LAWSON C5 PUZZLES D3 to lower 90s. CLASSIFIED D1 LETTERS B2 SECOND FRONT B1 Lows in 50s COMICS C4,D3 MONEY & MARKETS B3 SPORTS C1 to lower 60s. CRIME BLOTTER A2 OBITUARIES C6 VALLEY LIFE C5 DEAR ANNIE C5 OPINION B2 WEATHER C6 A2 Antelope Valley Press, Thursday, September 10, 2020 Three dead as wildfire explodes in Northern California By TERENCE CHEA and BRIAN MELLEY what not, so it triggered everybody and caused Associated Press terror and panic.” A power shutoff to prevent electric lines OROVILLE — Three people have died in from sparking wildfires — the cause of the a Northern California wildfire that has forced Paradise fire — prevented people from get- thousands from their homes, authorities said ting up-to-date information by internet, TV Wednesday. or their home phones, Culleton said. Many of Two people were found dead in one loca- the residents decided to leave and created a tion and a third person was discovered else- traffic jam leading out of town, another scary where, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea reminder of the bottleneck where several resi- announced. He didn’t provide details but dents died two years ago. California Highway Patrol Officer Ben Drap- In Southern California, fires burned in er tells the Bay Area News Group that one Los Angeles, San Bernardino and San Di- person was found in a car and apparently had ego counties. People in foothill communities been trying to escape the flames. east of Los Angeles were warned to be ready The fire northeast of San Francisco is to flee, but the region’s notorious Santa Ana threatening several communities. Stoked by winds were weaker than predicted. high winds, it’s burned a 25-mile path through “We’re encouraged that the wind activity mountainous terrain and parched foothills. appears to be dying down,” Gov. Gavin New- Hundreds of homes and other buildings som said. “The rest of the week looks a little ASSOCIATED PRESS are believed to have been damaged or de- more favorable.” stroyed, fire officials said at an evening news In this image taken Wednesday with a slow shutter speed, embers light up a hillside behind the Bidwell Bar Bridge as the Bear Fire burns in Oroville.